[openbeos] Re: Zoom and Resize
- From: "AstroMek" <astromek@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 18:07:10 +0100
Hi all!
(thought I should say hi since this is my first post)
I'm not a developer (well uhm... I am actually a VB, SQL, PHP and ASP
developer, but that won't help you guys, right?) so,
I hope noone will be offended by me posting here. :)
I felt I had to leave a counterpost to this one.
Since I practically work in/with windows all day I have come to use the
keyboard more and more.
Why?
It's alot faster to keep your hands on your keyboard all the time.
It is also better for my neck/shoulders/arms.
Anyway... hot-keys and such are good (IMO) and is one of the few complaints
I've got about BeOS.
I would really be glad if there was somewhat extended keyboard-"support" (in
lack of better words) in OBOS (R1 or later).
Now... take my $0.02 and may the force be with you!
-Sam Persson
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gregor Rosenauer" <rosenauer@xxxxxx>
To: <openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 1:45 PM
Subject: [openbeos] Re: Zoom and Resize
> > Mac and BeOS are dead in the water without a mouse. Every tried to use
either
> > without a mouse? You can't.
> Well that has historical reasons - Windows was DOS until NT, and a modern
GUI was a revolution for PC-DOS-users.
> So they carried on old legacy in form of keyboard-shortcuts for those poor
ppl that did not yet "upgrade" to a mouse.
>
> BeOS and MacOS have the GUI incorporated, so there was no real need for
controlling the entire GUI with keys only.
> It has good reasons to use a mouse or similar input-device (even kiosks
have a touchscreen or trackball), it's simplier, more intuitive, and less
tiring.
>
> Personally I hate it that you still have that annoying icon-button on each
Window, just to be able to reach the window-menu.
>
> I think it would be sufficient to offer shortcuts for Zoom/Hide, but the
time spent on making everything key-able could be better spent on other
things IMO.
>
> It would be cool to be able to control the mouse-cursor with
Option+Cursor-Keys though, like it was possible on the Amiga:)
>
> Regards,
> Gregor
> --
> Gregor B. Rosenauer
> Student of Computer Science and New Media Engineering
> Vienna, Austria
>
> http://www.hugh.at.tf
>
>
>
>
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